Heel for footwear



s. JA MOPOULOS. HEEL FOR FOOTWEAR. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, I920.

1,399,346.- atented Dec- 6,1921.

I INVENTOR.

A TTORNE Y.

UNITED STATES MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL FOR FOOTWEAR.

PATENT OFFICE.

STERGOS J'AMOPOULOS, OF BOSTONyMASSACI-IUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To T METAL HEELCOMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPOR EUREKA TION or Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

Application filed November 10, 1920. Serial No. 423,014.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SrERcos J AMOPOULOS, a subject of the King ofGreece, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, in the State ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inHeels for Footwear, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has special relation to ladies footwear of the type inwhich hollow, metallic, heels are used and my present purpose is toprovide novel and cheap means for securing such heels to the soles ofsuch footwear.

In the accompanying drawings the Figure l is a side elevation and Fig. 2is a central, vertical, sectional, view of a heel embodying my presentimprovement; said Fig. 2 being taken at the line 2-2 of Fig. 3, whichlatter is a top or lan view of the complete heel. In Fig. 4 l haveillustrated, in plan, the blank from which is to be formed, by suitablybending the same, a cup or recess for nut used in securing the heel tothe heel plate. Fig. 5 shows a slightly modified form. of plate f.

In these drawings the letter (1 indicates the heel proper as a whole,said heel being made hollow and, preferably, of aluminum in order thatit may be of light weight.

Near the lower portion of the heel is a partition I; which is drilled orcored to receive a screw 0 and said heel is cupped into lower endportion to receive a washer d of leather, or the like material, to whichmay be tacked or cemented a lift 6 of leather or other resilientmaterial which will serve as the tread portion of the heel.

Seated in the otherwise open upper portion of the heel a is a thin metalplate 7 which is provided with a plurality of small. holes 9 which aredesigned to receive tacks by means of which the plate f may be fixedlysecured to the heel portion of the shoe sole. By preference the plate fis formed with circumferential notches k that are adapted to registerwith and fit over certain lugs 2' that are formed integral with the heela. These lugs extend up from the marginal depressed seat 7' around thecavity of the heel.

The screw 0, which I have already referred to, extends upwardly in theheel a and its threaded end portion engages a nut in, which i ted mt y na dep s n as seen in Fig. 5 of the drawings, or in a pocket m which isattached to plate 7, which I will now describe specifically.

Said pocket is formed from a single piece blank of sheet metal (see Fig.4) consisting of a rectangular portion m, which is outlined by dottedlines in said Fig. 4;, having radlal portions or, a, n and n which areadapted to be folded upward into rectangular relation to the portion mas will be best understood by reference to Figs. 2 and 3 of thedrawings; the portion m is provided wlth an opening 0 through which thescrew 0 may pass in order to engage with the nut 7c which, it isassumed, is seated in the pocket m. The radial portions 12, n, n and nare formed, respectively, with radially project-- lng tongues p, p, pand p which are adapted, respectively, to be passed through openings q,q, Q2 and g in plate f, and to be clenched down upon said plate as seenin Fig. 2, thus uniting fixedly plate 7 and the plate m upon which thenut is rests. Any appropriate means (not shown) may be employed forsecuring the nut 70 on its seat in the cup or depression. By thusforming the nut-supporting pocket m I am able to utilize very thin sheetmaterial for the plate f, thereby reducing the cost of said plate whencompared with certain relatively thicker plates now in common use whichare simply drilled and tapped to receive the threaded end portion of theclamping screw.

In the operation of attaching a heel to a shoe by my described means,the plate) is tacked to the heel portion of the shoe, the nut it havingfirst been placedin the pocket m or a, as the case may be. The heel a isthen placed in proper position on plate 7 and screw 0 is passed upward,through hole I), and screwed home in said nut, thereby clamping the heelsecurely toplate f and to the shoe.

Having thus described my invention, I claim,

1. A heel-fastening device comprising a plate securable to the heelportion of a boot or shoe and formed with a central group of apertures,and a cup extending through and secured in said apertures and adapted tohold a nut in position to en age with said plate.

2 Z heel-fastening device comprising a plate formed with peripheralnotches, a series of marginal holes for receiving fasteners formed withtongues and in position to secure the latter to said. nut.

3. In a heel-fastener, a plate securable to the heel portion of ashoe-sole and formed :Wlth a central opening and with holes at oppositesides of said central opening; in

combination with a cup formed With downturned tongues, the body of saidcup extending down through said central openingwhile said tongues extenddown through said opposite holes and are ;.clenched under said plate,said cup having an aperture in its bottom through which a screw canextend, the interior of the cup being formed to fit about the edges of anut and hold the latter in position to receive'ascrew through said ap- Verture.

STERGos A oPoULos.

